#past

"The past is always tense, the future perfect."

"Who we were and who we are are four different people, and the me from now doesn't relate to the me from then, let alone to the you from now."

"I wanted to write a very simple story about a boy, a wolf, a girl, a bear and a forest, so I thought I might set it in the past. I didn't realise that it went back to when I was 10: I used to love the Stone Age when I was a kid and wanted to live in it, and I got rid of my bed and slept on the floor, but I didn't remember it."

"My ex-girlfriend was exquisite, while my current girlfriend is merely quisite. The ex always makes the past seem more excellent than the present."

"Sometimes you wish the world would be a better place and sometimes you wish the world was a better place. Only the great understanding of the difference of the time between the past and present moment will make it a better place."

"You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past."

"Many of our problems are broadly similar to those that undermined ... Norse Greenland, and that many other past societies also struggled to solve. Some of those past societies failed (like the Greenland Norse) and others succeeded ... The past offers us a rich database from which we can learn in order that we may keep on succeeding."

"Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past."

"The scent of Florida honeysuckle uplifted in a spring breeze reminds me of your love, and how fresh it was until it blew past me into my past."

"Fair as the moon and joyful as the light;Tot wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright;Not as she is, but as she fills his dreams."

"It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be."

"Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip."

"Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money."

"The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past."

"Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow."

"We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it."

"Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most."

"There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition."

"I held her gaze as I held her in my arms. With all that holding I couldn’t hold on to the moment, and it slipped past me into the lonely past."

"Past performance speaks a tremendous amount about one's ability and likelihood for success."